F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 5110
HR 5110 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 149 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,859 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 149 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 118216 · HIP 66257
6,859 K
temperature
4.91
apparent magnitude
19.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
149 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
19.73×
the Sun's light output
1.61
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.